The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-15
CAUGHT AT LAST.
wH ". Markham, FOrger,
W. in the Tolls
LITER AN EVENTFUL CHASE,
,.+ectives Do Good Work and
-" roIIow Him Thousands Of
MiIes-Other News
,rrested for Forgery.

cs,c,Go. July 14.-PriVate lntorma-
~ vss received here tonight, that
.'' 5.y in Kansas City, William H. w.
,I.,Ebsm. assistant postmaster OF the
n.t.b war vessel Espair, was ar
Dr. Ll.- IN the charge of forging the name
5;y superior officer for amounts
OL .. n-5 ABOUT SIS 900. The crimes
Ass.s Committed over year ago, when
meii F,o1ir was cru sing of the coast Of
G tlg l.'P For some time past, Markham
CntaT' the name of Gaylor, has been
u a,iUo as agent at Kansas City, for
s''i -I-seTl-known insurance company.
q. has been constantly Swallowed, day
Ia ~ ripbt since June 18th, until this
s-o,njng the detectives being unwilling
Nv arrest ,-1 him until the papers and
.,bsr nrplimlnaries had been first ar
O O'uoad Though the culprit's where
,hoSts have been known only
s sUCs'' the 18th, the detect
IVES have increasingly been trac-
me him up, step by step. The
syidsnce of the fOrgeries were dis
covered in the spring of 1886. The
Story Of the long chase forms mar
vsInns record. Markham left his
sbin ostensibly for Yucatan, and
ali clue to him had been lost
before his misdeeds came to light,
and the case was formally handed over
N the Scotland Yard detectives in Lon
don. Meantime, Markham was in
Shanghai, where he was spending
money with a prOdigslity worthy of an
East Indian rsial. 1t was in
Shanghai That he lei in with an Ameri- |
can adventures, named Gussie Bland,
vino had Just arrived from San
Francisco, travelling as Mrs. De
Forest Upon her Markham
lavished nearly everything he had
and soon after he became aware
that officers were searching him
out, he had barely enough funds to
bring himself to San Francisco. So ner-
YOus was be on the way over that he
attracted the attention Of San Fran
cisco officer, who was on another er-
rand. Had the San FranCieco officers
been notified. Markham could easily
have been arrested then, as he was kept
steadily in view for several days; but
no charges being known against him,
be was allowed to depart. Gussie
Bland returned to California on almost
the next steamer after Markham. She
went to Los Angeles but when the Brit
ish officials had finally located her, thew
learned that no one answering Mark |
hams description had been near her.
Nevertheless, her hOuse was watched, |
month after month, until, by accident, |
one day, detective noticed the address |
OF q letter mailed to one of-the Woman's |
lntmstes at a saloon near by. The |
handwriting seemed familiar, and a j
comparison with the photograph of the
signature on San Francisco hotel
register, showed the writer to be Mark
nam. Close observation established
tne TACT that Markham sent fIequent
le'.efs at the general delivery in some
distant city. Officers, in disguise, there
upon myelged themselves into Mrs.
DeFOrest graceS, and one night. when
T Sao paghe loOSened her tongue, got
s ueI 70 talking OF the mysterious CORE
1poIushce She ridiculed him merci-
,TIssty, as some EGglishmsn who had
s INV away fortune on her and was
J-n, az infatuated as ever, incidentally
T 'Upp.ns tne lact that he was then in
1,an 9'' OlIy' Immediately arrange
n InenI was made by the detectives
S DIe5jeOy the clerk at the postoffice
n DsnoT" II. IN Kansas City was to drop a
PISnCu outside the counter as a SIGNAL
o T.gu -as[Aham asked for his mail So
he fsiIe5 ana ana NE CLERK become that twice
.ulfu tlme the detective wss 90, az
,Eas H., Markham was intensel9 s1 1
Hr, e ana mad acquired the habit of start.
5si1 NJ al opposite direction from which
lS, nrsnoed to go, and then suddenIv
V nm, Iaklng the first car going the
Ors way and jumping off to take the
y.,,A: ae wanted, sll the ti Hme
1'Illg to see if he was pursnaJ
"a, , fpie of these tactics be
VS M Ti4 "a constantly for a mor, Ne
,r Ma ,%aay' When all was ready u tba
i5o ,I s,, SaS made, and to morrow Io me
% E S-l;! ne will be started on tbe 80
is,t 1-sald and long time of penal nguJ